Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Auden traveled to Berlin in 1927 and was joined by Isherwood two years later. "My parents said I could go abroad for year," he recalled. "The generation before mine was influenced heavily by French culture. I went to ??????? Paris. As it turned out, it was an interesting time to go. In the midtwenties, you can't imagine how safe life seemed. My father had been at the war, but I had never thought any thing might happen to him. At Berlin, I realized the foundations were shaking." And at Berlin, surrounded by the hysteria, madness, and mission that culminated...
Nudism may have its perils, but it has proved a gold mine for Swedish tour operators and for Gambia too. Every two weeks, from November through April, a chartered 707 swoops into Yundum International Airport, disgorges 150 pink newcomers, and then hauls 150 bronzed Scandinavians back to icy Stockholm. At Yundum's terminal, things get hectic, for the building is only 40 feet by 20 feet. Still, officials of Gambia Airways (which has clerks and baggage handlers but flies no aircraft) cope magnificently. Once tucked into one of Gambia's three hotels, the tourists head for the beaches...
...kids forced to go to schools that are jails and deprived of any possibility to improve their lives, fighting back comes naturally. A friend of mine who works in a PBH project in the South End told me about a group of kids who had found a black kid one night, poured gasoline on him and set him afire. In fact in New York, "Bum burning," is good sport. The point is that there's no need to convince these people that they have to fight. They're already doing...
...YEAR'S EVE, a friend of mine, tripped out on mescaline, ran into a girl be used to know at a party. The girl was upset, more than a little drunk, and ready to tell the whole world what was bugging her. My friend listened to her story, sympathized with it, but felt powerless to do anything. Finally he said. "I don't know what to say,-. There are only two things I can do-and I'll do them if you want. I can go to bed with you or I can kill you. That's all." The girl...
...recalls, "until I saw a sign saying 'Keep off the grass.' Then I would stomp all over it." He studied archaeology at the University of Chicago, but what really excited him was spending a summer helping dissident miners in their revolt against John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers. Later he wrote a biography of Lewis, who became a close friend and mentor. After graduation, he received his first lesson in the realities of power when, as a graduate fellow in criminology, he studied Al Capone's gang. He learned that in the Chicago of the 1930s...